"Mit dem Prozeß beginnt die Musik": Gottfried von Einem's 1953 Operatic Adaptation of Franz Kafka's Der Prozeß.

Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading   Processing Request
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
    • Subject Terms:
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information on Gottfried von Einem, a writer. Immediately after the Second World War, Einem, who was then in his late twenties, found himself among the leading lights of an Austrian musical scene that was now regrouping after its annexation by Nazi Germany. Einem himself, in addition to prewar studies in England, had studied and worked in Berlin in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The particularly interesting aspect of Einem's opening scene in his opera, is not his use of twelve-tone composition, nor his abandonment of such a technique, rather, the most interesting aspect is arguably the point within the scene at which the use of the tone-row breaks off, and the manner in which Einem breaks it off.